The Victorian Sage: Studies in Argument. --

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The Victorian Sage is of central importance to every reader concerned with nineteenth-century English literature. John Holloway's aim has been to analyze the philosophy and the rhetoric in the works of six great Victorians - Carlyle, Disraeli, George Eliot, Newman, Arnold, and Hardy - and to combine a study of ideas with "a study of rhetorical devices, of the ways in which certain kinds of writers put across their view of life with a wholeness and an immediacy unobtainable by the mere logician and philosopher," as David Daiches has said. In The Victorian Sage, a book notable for its scholarship and insight, Mr. Holloway has achieved his aim and created a new approach to our understanding of Victorian thought.